From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 01 May 2008 08:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m41FOk1p009340 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 08:24:52 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id F253E1B8E55B for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 08:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id UU1Qvs2DVaNIWn75 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 08:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1039332pyc.4 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 08:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1d3e8bf0805010825o7a6a0765ofeb63b730fef3c4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:25:29 +0100 From: "Dovydas Sankauskas" Subject: Re: disk I/O error In-Reply-To: <480E17C7.7070606@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1d3e8bf0804220842r26411f51vc714da371255aa90@mail.gmail.com> <480E17C7.7070606@sandeen.net> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 2008/4/22 Eric Sandeen : > > In any case to recover as best you can from the dying disk, try > dd_rescue to image every readable sector, then run xfs_repair on that > image and mount it loopback to get to what's left. I did exactly as you said. It took a while, but I managed to recover all data I have lost. ddrescue is a great tool! Thank you for your help. -- Dovydas Sankauskas